Friday 13 February 2009

RSS, Feeds and Readers

As I have set up this blog as part of a course on Web 2.0 I would just like to add the following:

I have subscribed to the feeds for several new blogs and I'm looking forward to seeing all the ways that my fellow course mates have approached the blogging task.

I also keep up to date with the blog feeds from two of my pals in Canada - I love that I can peruse their posts when they appear on the google reader on igoogle because I miss them!

I also subscribe to the RSS feeds for two learning and teaching websites so I can have a look at the recommendations for new elearning technologies and such, but I hate it that sometimes the reader is filled with loads of things that you have to wade through in order to find something relevant.

I would have to think on about how such technology could be utilised by Universities... good question.

4 comments:

  1. It's great that the RSS feeds have already become a part of your life. Of course, you're lost to all good sense, now - must check my reader, ooh, must comment on this one, oh, this is an interesting site, I'll subscribe to it - 100 blogs later and 30-40 feeds per day and you're thinking, mmm, have I done the right thing? But you know you have - all you have to do is do a little pruning and find the feeds that are truly essential, which is an ongoing and never-ending process of course. Or is that just me?

    :-)

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  2. What are the learning and teaching websites, Lisa? Have they turned up anything useful as well as all the rubbish?

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  3. My favourite one is Jane's e-learning pick of the day - I've poppped the link on to our good blog/bad blog googledoc (as a good blog). I like this one because it suggests all sorts of potentially relevant e-learning tools - things I'm sure I'd never come across otherwise! The other one is distance-educator.com - this is the one that sometimes blasts out more info than I care to cope with, but it does have a lot of interesting stuff too. The JISC and HEFCE websites also have feeds.

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